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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:05:15 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        notme <notme@lvdi.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Linux Vs. NT Vs. FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199904300405.XAA01014@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from notme <notme@lvdi.net>  of "Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:30:38 PDT." <372923DE.FA7CBCEE@lvdi.net> 

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notme writes:
> Hi
>     Sorry for the inapproperate subject, but I just wonder if
> FreeBSD's performance in a multiprocessor enviornment
> comparing to Linux and NT.  The reason I'm asking is
> because of the article in the following address:
> 
> http://www.maximumpcmag.com/
> 
> which stated that Linux lost to NT in a test on a Quad
> processor Dell server and the new test between the
> two.

If you search the recent archives, this "report" has been heavily 
discussed here and elsewhere. The 15 second summary was the "report" 
was financed by Microsoft and had MS's undivided attention to tuning 
the NT box. Linux/Apache was essentially box-stock.

The Mindcraft "survey" has been reprinted in several places.

You can read more about it at:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/27/1317238&mode=thread&threshold=0

Every other attempt to quantify the performance of a free Unix web 
server, the FreeBSD and Linux boxes trounced NT on the same CPU.

As to Linux vs. FreeBSD, its generally ceeded that FreeBSD behaves 
better than Linux under heavy loads.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.




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